This article was featured on the cover of the journal (see below) and recommended twice by the Faculty of 1000. It was the fourth most downloaded paper in Mol. Micro. In 2016 and was in the top 5% of all articles tracked by Altmetric (https://www.altmetric.com).

This article was profiled in Science (Editors choice, 309: 1303) and content was included in a text book, called Membrane Structural Biology (edited by Mary Luckey). Information from the article was also used to annotate entries in the Swiss Prot and Entrez databases.

This article was profiled in Nature Methods (Editorial comment, 2: 483) and the Journal of Proteome Research (4: 1045). Content from the article has been included in the text book, Membrane Structural Biology (edited by Mary Luckey) and has been used to annotate hundreds of entries in the Swiss Prot and Entrez databases.